1979 is the year when the rev­o­lu­tions in Iran and Nicaragua happen, when Margaret Thatcher is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, when American film director Francis Ford Coppola wins Palme d’Or for his film Apocalypse Now, it is also the year of the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, the year of the death of Joseph Kessel and of gang­ster Jacques Mesrine and the year of many other events.

University Paris Diderot and Bétonsalon - Center for art and research are inviting sev­eral nar­rator fig­ures to explore the events of the year 1979. On stage, vis­i­tors will dis­cover ongoing con­fer­ences, per­for­mances and con­certs from 7 p.m. to 4 a.m. This « FLASH 79 » night will be hosted by Bernadette Bricout, vice pres­i­dent of the University Paris Diderot (Vie cul­turelle Université dans la ville) and teacher of oral lit­ter­a­ture as well as by Céline Ahond. This Nuit Blanche is an occa­sion to invite researchers and artists. For University Paris Diderot : Laure Bonnaud, Pierre Berthomieu, Pascal Dibie, Frédéric Tournier and Sébastien Charnoz. For Bétonsalon - Centre d’art et de recherche : Céline Ahond, Jean-Sébastien Tacher, Luc Kheradmand, Fanny Adler and Vincent Madame, Alexis Guillier and Sébastien Rémy, Dominique Gilliot, Jochen Dehn, Valentina Traïanova and Antoine Dufeu, Mosh Mosh, Nox Factio, Polar Inertia. Thus the oral prac­tices will reveal their mul­tiple sides and for one night, dis­cur­sive spaces will become spaces of the unex­pected and the spec­tac­ular.

During the whole Nuit Blanche, a visit will be orga­nized around the archi­tec­ture and the art­works of University Paris Diderot. Indeed, the Grands Moulins campus is gifted with real archi­tec­tural diver­sity: works by Rudy Ricciotti, Françoise Mauffret & Jean Guervilly, Nicolas Michelin, Chaix & Morel, IN & ON archi­tec­ture, etc. The Nuit Blanche guides will also pre­sent art­works by Keiichi Tahara, the Light Scape series, vis­ible on the South-West wall of the Physics building located next to the Seine, or the medals of Trait d’union, by Eric Duyckaerts vis­ible on all the build­ings of University Paris Diderot. On the Esplanade, Les Alumouettes, cre­ated by Yann Kersalé shed light on the grands moulins building. Finally, La Trame de Minoterie, by Franklin Azzi, is vis­ible from Thomas Mann street, when walking out of the grands moulins court­yard to go to the Seine and con­tinue with the Nuit Blanche visit.